Eva If her husband had an SSN and received benefits she may have received benefits on his behalf, and, as I recall, sometimes women's SSNs changed to their husbands in that case, or they never had one. IF by any chance you have her husband's number, you might try inputting that in a search rather than the name and see if you get something. Here's a related story: http://articles.latimes.com/2002/dec/22/business/fi-montalk22 Pat Dunford -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eva Goodwin via Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 2:36 PM To: Genealogy Guide Cc: TGF Subject: Re: [TGF] death certificates Thanks so much for all the responses. My guess is that she never had a SSN--she was not born in the US and though her husband naturalized and did apply for social security, she may never have needed to. I did search for her with many different name variations. She does have a probate file in Chicago, but I was trying to find a date of death so that I could request the death certificate by mail. The SSDI is so handy for that! (I live in California so it's not something I can investigate in person.) On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Genealogy Guide via < [email protected]> wrote: > In response to the "why no listing in the SSDI" part of Eva's > question, not all U.S. citizens have Social Security numbers, even > today. Laws for registration and collection have changed over the > years. Some categories of workers used to be exempt. Some who have > never been employed might not have had reason for an SSN. This > includes my aged mentally ill uncle who died in 2012. > Charlene M. Pipkin, Accredited Genealogist® The ICAPGenSM service mark > and the Accredited Genealogist® and AG® certification marks are the > sole property of the International Commission for the Accreditation of > Professional Genealogists. All Rights Reserved. > > On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 6:57 PM, Eva Goodwin via < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > A question for the hive-mind: > > Aside from the possibility that an individual was out of the country > at the time of death, is there any reason why a U.S. resident who died > in 2009 would not have a death certificate or be in the Social > Security death index? > > Thanks for sharing thoughts! > Eva > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message